I agree with you if ‘bearing witness’ only means that you are testifying to your religious faith. This means there is no element of direct experience in the Shahada. What is being recited is only a belief, not a fact.
Well of course it means testifying to belief. Did a single muslim ever claim to have seen God? If that was so, don't you think Islamic texts would have been full of descriptions of Him? But you won't find even a mere hint. And since when does belief in something negate the fact that it exists? It only doesn't exist in
your perception. That doesn't make you right.
Therefore if there is no element of direct experience in the Shahada, the cornerstone of Islam, then the claims about Allah in the Quran are only a belief, a faith and not a fact. This contradicts with what Dr. Zakir Naik, the most famous commentator on Islam, says. He says that “Islam is confirmed, just like 2 + 2 = 4.”
If facts were based on direct experience then, why have you accepted the fact that I exist without seeing me? You noted responsive characteristics that only a human can transmit and knew that you are engaging with a person and not some bot designed to response to a sequence of words and phrases. You knew from signs, not from direct experience. Therefore the absence of direct experience does not negate the fact that I exist.
Claims about Allah in the Quran...
If you wrote an autobiography, you wouldn't base it on beliefs about yourself, but facts. Since God is the Author of the Quran, the claims in the Quran are facts, not someone else's beliefs. His signs confirm His existence. Amongst His signs is the scientific content in the Quran. The accuracy of scientific facts which scientists have agreed upon, could not have come from man, since man had no knowledge of them at the time. If a man had produced a Book over 1400 years ago, stating scientific details, then at least a few of those details would have been disproved. Yet none has! Therefore the Quran can be trusted and followed as the Divine Book of Allah.
In fact, it is Hinduism that is based on beliefs and not facts. It's origins unknown. There are only suggestions that they were written by Brahmin priests sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C
According to the Brhadāranyaka Upanishad the Vedas was transmitted by Brahma breathing it out.
As clouds of smoke billow from a fire lit with damp fuel, so indeed this Immense Being has exhaled all this: Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sāma Veda, the Atharva-Āngirasa, histories, ancient tales, sciences, hidden teachings (Upanishads), verses, aphorisms, explanations, and glosses – it is that Immense Being who has exhaled all this (2.4.10).
Who saw Brahma breathing out the Vedas? It is just your belief. You can't prove it. The Vedas also states earth is static. The claim is then verified in the Rig Vedas by stating that the sun moves around the earth.
The God who made the earth stable (Yajur Ved 32/6)
Sun is full of light and knows all the human beings, so his horses take him to sky to look at the world” (Rig Ved 1/50/1)
Surely a god would know better than that? I sincerely suggest you use logic to research the so called facts of your religion instead of blindly following what your parents have taught you.
